Forty-four worshippers killed at Nigerian mosque

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The mosque in northern Nigeria pictured a few days before the attackSunday Alamba/AP

Foreign Staff

Last updated at 5:04AM, August 13 2013

Suspected Islamists killed at least 44 worshippers at a mosque in northern
Nigeria, apparently to punish residents who had been helping the military in
their battle against the jihadist group Boko Haram.

The attack happened on Sunday morning in Konduga town, 35km (22 miles) outside
Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, but the first reports did not emerged
until last night. Witnesses said that some of the victims had been hacked to
death.

Elsewhere another 12 civilians died in an apparently simultaneous attack.

“Gunmen believed to be Boko Haram members entered the mosque and opened fire
on worshippers, killing 44,”